Makes me sick to my stomach watching those practice videos knowing full well we could have landed Oates. Danny's practice looks like a fucking middle School practice
I actually coach middle school. Our practices are better.
Makes me sick to my stomach watching those practice videos knowing full well we could have landed Oates. Danny's practice looks like a fucking middle School practice
If we got good again at basketball, would you guys still love it the same way everybody did in the 90s and 00s? I just don't think it will every be the same again.
Between 1997-8 and 2010-11, that's 14 seasons, UVA basketball went to two NCAA tourneys (and did nothing in either appearance). They were a collective 50 games under .500 in the ACC; produced essentially no NBA talent during that span. UVA basketball could not have been more irrelevant. Hiring a great coach has turned that all around, and UVA hoop is all that UVA fans and alumni want to talk about. Basketball tickets are scarce; going to UVA hoop games is the thing to do.
WF wouldn't need to win two ACC titles, run through six straight NCAA appearances and grab their first Natty, but if WF was simply a relevant NCAA basketball team, the fanbase would get stoked. Wouldn't take that much.
If we got good again at basketball, would you guys still love it the same way everybody did in the 90s and 00s? I just don't think it will every be the same again.
Negative. That ship has sailed. The place that Wake sports once occupied has been filled with other interests/hobbies/etc over the last 9 years. I have a 10, 8, 6 and 4 year old that have never attended a Wake basketball game.
I agree to a point. Family stuff comes first and it's easier to keep up with games instead of parking my ass on the couch for two hours on Sat/Sun and Tues/Wed. And I'll never watch ACC basketball as religiously as I did in the 80s and 90s growing up into early adulthood. But people are kidding themselves if they don't think they'd intensely follow a legitimately good Wake basketball team.
Between 1997-8 and 2010-11, that's 14 seasons, UVA basketball went to two NCAA tourneys (and did nothing in either appearance). They were a collective 50 games under .500 in the ACC; produced essentially no NBA talent during that span. UVA basketball could not have been more irrelevant. Hiring a great coach has turned that all around, and UVA hoop is all that UVA fans and alumni want to talk about. Basketball tickets are scarce; going to UVA hoop games is the thing to do.
WF wouldn't need to win two ACC titles, run through six straight NCAA appearances and grab their first Natty, but if WF was simply a relevant NCAA basketball team, the fanbase would get stoked. Wouldn't take that much.
I'd be stoked. But not in the travelling to away games, season tickets to home games, travelling to Winston on weeknights way like I once was. Some of that is family, sure, but a lot of that is that I've just found other things to do.
No matter what others say, losing Maryland as a regular opponent also hurt. Every year, it was circle the date when Wake BB went to College Park.
Every other year, it was circle the date for Wake at MD for football. I have MD connected friends, and they were perfectly happy to sit in the Wake section and behave themselves.
Pitt, Syracuse, BC etc. just don't fit the same spot.
The random Wake at Navy game just doesn't have the same appeal.